Random Thoughts

[Food Lady]

Man, I have a strong tendency to assume everything is about me, that someone is annoyed at me and something they said within earshot is a dig. In all reality, I missed the one word or phrase that could change the meaning entirely. It's especially stupid because said person hasn't acted at all like they're angry with me for months and months. I think this is what's called a "trauma response" and I've been suddenly seeing a whole lot of my emotional, internal thought processes resemble that. It's daunting.

[Ceir]

Happy Pi Day!

[Ceir]

It often annoys me that my shoes - no matter how new, old, clean, or dirty the soles are - have a tendency to squeak when I walk on hard surfaces. Like store tile floors. I do not at all object to the squeaking being a completely passive-aggressive means of imparting "stop standing in the middle of the aisle and get the heck out of the way".

[Ironclad Alibi]

I have a sizable collection of board games. One petty annoyance is when an expansion comes in a really nice box or something...that's entirely redundant because the expansion fits into the base game container with no issues. Sure, I just reuse the box somewhere, or hack the art off and stick it in with the main game, but still. Petty.

I have the opposite problem. A couple of expansions came with really nice boxes that also hold the original game, leaving me with the really nice original game box. You just can't win.

[Ceir]

I have a sizable collection of board games. One petty annoyance is when an expansion comes in a really nice box or something...that's entirely redundant because the expansion fits into the base game container with no issues. Sure, I just reuse the box somewhere, or hack the art off and stick it in with the main game, but still. Petty.

[catcul]

I decided to watch Suzume to close out 2023. After watching that, I found out that Japan was hit by a 7.5 earthquake to start 2024. That is a terrible coincidence.

I hope the people of Japan recover quickly.

[Nunavut Pants]

Just this evening I got the "Adblockers are against our ToS" again. So *click*, no more blocking on YT again. I'll turn it back on when ABP updates next.

[Ironclad Alibi]

The Adblock thing seems to be resolved on YT. The ad does load but maybe only plays 1 or 2 seconds for me. That's how the update is designed, to make YT "think" the ad plays in full. I think someone here said that.
Anyway, my thought:
"I've conducted my finances in such a way that I don't feel the need to ask for help" doesn't seem like a dangerous thing to say until Life decides to humble you.

I was trying to play along with YT and their ads until they stuck an ad in the middle of a live stream. Adblock went back on.

[Food Lady]

The Adblock thing seems to be resolved on YT. The ad does load but maybe only plays 1 or 2 seconds for me. That's how the update is designed, to make YT "think" the ad plays in full. I think someone here said that.
Anyway, my thought:
"I've conducted my finances in such a way that I don't feel the need to ask for help" doesn't seem like a dangerous thing to say until Life decides to humble you.

[Ceir]

Yeah. YT keeps updating their adblock detection, and then a day or two later ABP updates their detection evasion, and on and on. I turn ABP off when YT figures it out, then turn it back on when ABP updates. At the moment, it's back on again....

Yup. Firefox + ABP here too. So far I'm only getting the closeable "you shouldn't use an adblocker!" warning. Well, maybe if a) the ads weren't often scammy, scummy, borderline-NSFW stuff; and b) Google weren't intent on cramming ads down every orifice a viewer has. Oh, and ya like the "we do this for the creators!" bit? Maybe if the creators actually saw more than a scant percent of the ad revenue. But no, it's a modern mega-corp, the money line must go infinitely up forever.

[Nunavut Pants]

Yeah. YT keeps updating their adblock detection, and then a day or two later ABP updates their detection evasion, and on and on. I turn ABP off when YT figures it out, then turn it back on when ABP updates. At the moment, it's back on again....

[Ceir]

Bah. More grousing about the internet. Even as a Firefox user, I've finally fallen foul of YT going "You're using an adblocker! You shouldn't use an adblocker!". I might have considered it once, if the ads they serve weren't almost entirely intrusive in nature, excessive in number, and often for scams and other borderline content.

I get so tired of life being just inundated with bloody advertising.

[Food Lady]

I tend to worry that I don't contribute enough to the household because I don't get a chance to do the outside stuff but after this past month I'm gonna say no one EVER has the right to tell me I'm not doing enough.

[Ceir]

As someone who graduated American high school in the traditional way, and then had to go to more than one other graduation, Pompous Circumstances *coughcough* Pomp & Circumstance still to this day gives me the twitches. The 'Noah's Ark' set of Fantasia 2000 wasn't a bad use of it though.

[Food Lady]

I worked in retail for an unholy amount of years and yet no sucktomers nor Black Fridays ruined the holidays for me.
A family member in just 2 years time has with their past vindictive, judgmental attitude, added to carelessness.
Now each holiday brings up very bad memories of said holiday with that person. The season is ruined for me.
I'm sad.

edited for typos